By Brent E. Beltrán
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns, toons, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: tamales, a soulless city, Ocean Beach, genuinely Trump, eliminating the Electoral College, Makeda Dread, America in distress, homeless in the cold, Bob’s gran mal, Thanksgiving at Standing Rock, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site.
San Diego Free Press Columns:
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
Doug is on vacation. Sometimes our hardest working, volunteer, community journalist needs a break. So we gave him one.
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Progressive Stocking Stuffers for the Impending Trump Era
From the Soul by Ernie McCray
Trying to Climb Back to the Mountain Top
North of the Fence by Barbara Zaragoza
Tamales for the Holidays: Ancira and El Ruisenor
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Next Christmas
El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. Garcia
Holding Trump’s Feet to the Fire?
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: Dec 11-17
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally/Nationally Sourced Contributors:
The City Without Souls: San Francisco Excludes One Group
By Barbara Zaragoza / South Bay Compass
News from Ocean Beach and Point Loma: Mid-December 2016
By Frank Gormlie / OB Rag
US Spy Leaders Won’t Brief Electors Even as Majority Want Vote Delay
By Jon Queally / Common Dreams
Why Privatizers Look Forward to 2017
By Donald Cohen / Capital & Main
Whatever Trump Is, It’s Genuine
By Michael-Leonard Creditor
One Person, One Vote: Time to Eliminate Electoral College
By Anna Daniels
Explaining the Cult of Trump
By David Dillard-Wright / AlterNet
Floppy’s New Wheels
By South OB Girl / OB Rag
Makeda “Dread” Cheatom: Nurturing Immigrant Art and Giving Back
By Mimi Pollack
Oklahoma Residents Taking Action Against Frackers But Is It To No Avail?
By John Lawrence
It’s Official : America Is in Distress – Place Your Flag Stamp Upside Down
By Frank Gormlie / The OB Rag
Ilyse Hogue on Our DNC Chair
By Ilyse Hogue / Medium
The Benefits of Community Choice Energy and How California Utilities Aim to Block Them
By Tyson Siegele / SD350.org
Did You Wake Up this AM in a Warm Home? Thousands of San Diegans Didn’t
By Anna Daniels
The Real Cause of Climate Change: Deforestation!
By Chuck Burr / The Feed Magazine
Connections Have Gaps
By Bob Dorn
Standing Rock Thanksgiving Pilgrimage – A First Hand Account
By Maria Brown / UrbDeZine